Last year corporations took it on the chin when it came to financial scandal.
Last year corporations took it on the chin when it came to financial scandal. Here are a few other companies that need cleaning uptheir practices aren't necessarily illegal, they're just wrong:
British American Tobacco still promotes cigarettes to youth and opposes the World Health Organization's adoption of a strong Framework Convention on Tobacco Control.
Caterpillar sells to the Israeli Defense Force bulldozers that are used as instruments of war to destroy Palestinian homes and buildings.
DynCorp, a private defense contractor, flies the planes that spray herbicides on coca crops in Colombiakilling food crops and exposing people to dangerous toxins.
M&M/Mars responded half-heartedly to news about child slavery in the West African cocoa fields and refuses to convert a modest 5 percent of its product to Fair Trade cocoa.
Procter & Gamble failed to address plummeting coffee bean prices, which destabilized tens of thousands of small farmers in Central America, Ethiopia, Uganda, and elsewhere.
Source: "Bad Apples in a Rotten System: The 10 Worst Corporations of 2002," by Russell Mokhiber and Robert Weissman (Multinational Monitor, December 2002).
Links:
[1] http://sojo.net/magazine/2003/03
[2] http://sojo.net/biography/rose-marie-berger
[3] http://sojo.net/biography/kate-bowman
[4] http://sojo.net/magazine/2003/03/corporations-need-clean#comment-covenant
[5] http://sojo.net/letter-to-the-editor?post=Corporations%20That%20Need%20A%20Clean-Up
[6] http://sojo.net/donate